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Open issues about Compilers from GitHub projects in every language. The list opens on the ones we rated beginner-friendly, and the subject's other names are matched too.

Compilers

Open issues
168k
New this week
3.4k
Nobody on it yet
155k
Average difficulty
4.1/5

What this list is like

  • Average annotated difficulty: 4.1/5 across 191,048 issues.
  • 4% of 191,048 time estimates are one day or less.

Updated Nov 9, 2026.

About Compilers

Compilers and interpreters turn source code into something a machine can run. Work here includes parsers, type checkers, code generation, optimisation passes and language tooling.

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How many Compilers issues are open here?
168,486 open issues: 3,432 opened in the last seven days, and 154,573 with nobody working on them yet. We count them once a day.
Where do I start?
Pick an issue marked beginner-friendly, read the project's contributing guide and comment before you begin. The contributor guide walks through it, from choosing an issue to your first pull request.
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